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On This Day In History for February 3, 2016
This is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining in 2016.
- It was on this date in 1488 that Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
- Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts 379 years ago today.
- The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas 326 years ago today.
- That same date in 1834, Wake Forest University is established.
- 98 years ago today, The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
- Also today in 1947, The lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 °C (−83.0 °F), is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
- Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa 57 years ago today.
- The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon on this date in 1966.
- John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth 32 years ago today.
- That very same date, Space Shuttle STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- February 3, 1995, Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- The United States first Postmaster General, Samuel Osgood, born on this date in 1747.
- Also born on this date in 1857, Italian sculptor and designer of the Vulcan statue, Giuseppe Moretti.
- German engineer and designer of the Junkers J 1, Hugo Junkers was born today in 1859.
- Poet Gertrude Stein was born February 3, 1874.
- One of America’s most famous painters, Normal Rockwell was born today in 1894.
- Also born today in 1904, one of America’s most famous gangsters, Pretty Boy Floyd.
- Henry Heimlich, American physician and author, turns 96 today.
- Celebrating his 83rd birthday, lawyer and politician, Paul Sarbanes of Sarbanes-Oxley fame.
- Actress Morgan Fairchild turns 66 today
- and finally, Warwick Davis is 46
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 3, 2016
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- President pledges $4B toward computer science education in schools
- Star Trek gets a new con for 50th
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